Update :
On EDMW forum (in which Kevin Wee had only
just created a forum account to participate in the
discussion thread dedicated to his
video), Shutter89 posted a summary of the 1st
hour of Kevin Wee's video :
He thinks the education system now is not good for the
youngsters because it focuses on grades. And because the education
system is focused on grades, students are super stressed on
academic since young and as a result, some of them fall behind
(because of stress, depression which is what he went through,
expectation to excel in academics) and hence, got bad grades and
couldn't get into universities because universities entry mainly
focuses on grades. As a result, they wasted their 18 years of youth
because they couldn't get into universities. He was one of these
students. He excelled in studies and sports, got into VS and RJC.
But at RJC, I believe because of PSTD, he couldn't focus on
studies, suffered severe depression from PSTD, blanked out during
math exam and subsequently got a U for his math. Because of this U,
he couldn't got into local University. So basically, 18 years of
studying has gone into the drain.
So he was very angry towards the current education system. He began
to tear up his lecture notes, burn them up, tear up his some of his
past certificates which he think are useless to him. He also
criticized the education system in terms of the content it teaches
the student. He thinks some contents taught in JC are useless or
senseless to him. He also feels that not much emotional support is
provided with regards to depression management among students
nowadays..everyone thinks everyone is capable of handling stress
and like to simplify/generalise the idea of depression.
He feels the youngsters should go for dreams that they like right
from the start. For example, if you want to be a cook, straightaway
go study in a cooking school, don't go JC just for the sake of
university and getting that degree. If you like art, go study it
straight from the start so you won't waste time studying for a
degree.
